The Prodigy. (Mary Barber Poems)
Tho' Rhyme serves the Thoughts of great Poets to fetter,It sets off the Sense of small Poets the better.When I've ...
Poems about pretender (21 Poems)
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IWhere's your kingdom, little king? Where the land you call your own, Where your palace and your throne?Fluttering lightly on the wing Through ...
Ballad (Jonathan Swift Poems)
A WONDERFUL age Is now on the stage:I'll sing you a song, if I can, How modern Whigs, Dance forty-one jigs,But God bless ...
Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Ye Commons and Peers, Pray lend me your ears,I'll sing you a song, (if I can,) How Lewis le Grand Was put to ...
The Oak (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his! There needs no crown to mark the forest's king;How in his leaves ...
A Farewell To Pope (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
"Hats off" in the crowd. "Present arms" in the line!Let the standards all bow, and the sabres incline —Roll drums, ...
Parody On The Recorder’s Speech To His Grace The Duke Of Ormond, 4th July, 1711 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
THE RECORDER'S SPEECH EXPLAINED BY THE TORIESAn ancient metropolis, famous of lateFor opposing the Church, and for nosing the State,For ...
Eve (Ralph Hodgson Poems)
Eve, with her basket, wasDeep in the bells and grass,Wading in bells and grassUp to her knees,Picking a dish of ...
The Borough. Letter II: The Church (George Crabbe Poems)
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
An Impartial History (Dougal Graham Poems)
AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY of the RISE, PROGRESS, AND EXTINCTION of the late REBELLION In Britain, in the Years 1745 and ...
On the Love of God (Caroline Fry Poems)
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
The Vicar Of Bray (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant; A furious High-Church man ...
The Size (George Herbert Poems)
Content thee, greedie heart.Modest and moderate joyes to those, that haveTitle to more hereafter when ...
Once Below A Time (Dylan Thomas Poems)
IOnce below a time,When my pinned-around-the-spiritCut-to-measure flesh bit,Suit for a serial sumOn the first of each hardship,My paid-for slaved-for own ...
Enigma XIX. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
In revolutionary France, (During that bloody scene,)Whose head cut off and heart torn out.With brutal rage were shown about,First ...
XXVIII. Wisdom laugh’d at by the Multitude (Ellis Walker Poems)
Wisdom, you say, is what you must desire,The only charming blessing you admire,Therefore be bold and fit yourself to bearMany ...
It is not seemly to be famous… (Boris Pasternak Poems)
It is not seemly to be famous:Celebrity does not exalt;There is no need to hoard your writingsAnd to preserve them ...
Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
Father Riley’s Horse (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
Acknowledgement (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
With the ladies' permission, most humbly I'd mention How much we're obliged by all their attention; We sink with the ...
Street Cries (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...